The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-31
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
IT is said that the law firm of Robert 7. Lin
coin has income of $50, 900 year.
BISHOP STEVENS, of Philadelphia, shows no
signs of regainng health, and his condition is
regarded as critical.
MARY STEWART, once the slave of the late
Alexander III. Stephens of Georgia, has perfected
invention for coupling cars.
A VERMONT boy learned to make cider brandy
in his mothers teapot from the information con-
corning the physiological effects of alcohol con-
tanned in one of his obligatory text
CONGRESSMAN GUENTHER, Of Wisconsin, is
about forty years of age, has a yellowish mus
tache, light blue eyes and rosy complexion
He has soft German accent and remarks with
il that Jonn Sherman is the man.
GOD send peacel And where for aye the loved and
lost recline
Let fall 0 South, your leaves of palm
o North, your sprigs of pine!
MISS ANTHONY known as the only "lady law
yer of Dublin, having brought suit for f10,
900 against Sir John Arnott, proprietor of the
Irish Times. dismissed her suit without pref
udice," because one of the jurors laughed at her.
HAVING been lately asked what he thought to
be the true standard of pronunciation, Matthew
Arnold said that in his opinion the best author
ity was 1.-The usage of wel-bred women'-better
than the stage or the best pronounclng dlction-
airy.
DION BoUcIcAULT's mother had the greatest
repugnance to his being an actor; but when she
found that he lad married an actress she imme-
Giately urged him to join his wife in her profess
sion and not to allow her to act except with him
and in his works.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND is quoted saying:
II drink beer and light wines myself, and
think feel all the better for them; but do not
recommend their use to others, because L be-
lieve that every man should be a law unto him
self in this matter"
GEN. III. B. DARLINGTON has written a volume
of verse recording mis- impressions in ascending
the Wasbin eton monument on Feb. % last 1t
is dedicated to the Hon. Robert G. Winthrop,
who the orator of the cornerstone laying
and of the dedication of the monument.
HAVING predicted warmer weather for several
days General Greedy appeared on the streets of
Washington the other day in brandnew suit
of white flannel Then the cool wave came.
presumably to teach the arctic hero that he
can't boss the mercury he did the polar bears
GEN. ANsoN S. McCooK, Secretary of
the United States Senate, has very pleasant
berth His salary is 900 year: he is al
lowed $500 year for horse and wagon, and
$500 S.. 900 disbursing officer He is not
obliged to beAin Washington more than half the
year.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON has been soiourn-
ing in Switzerland for his health. He-is threat
ened with umption. and is in a very delicate
condition He has always been careless as to
his physical welfare. and it is said his present
trouble was brought on by steerage VOWS age 30
this country, undertaken for literary purpoSrs
In Rhode Island factory town certain
ployer recently paid out to his employees.
Saturday night, 800 in new bills that had been
secretly marked. On the following Monday $500
of these marked bills were deposited in the bank
by the saloon keepers of the town. 1t is to be
feared that the McGlynn-George Anti-poverty
Society could not help these men very much.
NINA VAN ZANDT still continues to visit Au-
gust Spies daily. In spite of the law she persists
in considering herself his legal wife. Spies is
but shadow of his former SELF He has lost
his spirits. and spends hours in walking gloom
lily up and down the narrow confines of his CELL
He and his companions will have to spend the
summer in jail, as the decision OF the Supreme
Court their Will not be known until next
fall
THE ninth term of the Concord School of
Philosophy is to begin July %. Twelve
morning lectures will be devoted to Aristotle,
ten evening lectures to dramatic poetry. and
four brief papers anthology will be presented
The list of lecturers includes Prof. Luigi Ferri,
Of Rome. Italy Prof. Thomas Davidson. Rev.
DR.. A. P. Peabody Prof. W. T. Harris. Brother
Azarias Rev. DIR. G. A. Bartol. Mrs. Julia Ward
Howe, and Rev. George Willis Cooke.
MERCHANT 'TsLEY lived in Freetown, Mass.
century or more ago. He had pink eyes and
same peculiarites. Living now in the back
woods about Freetown and neighboring places is
a race oe Albinos, descendants Of Merchant
Pittsley. They seldom emerge from their re-
tirement. but sometimes appear on the streets of
New Bedford Fall River or Taunton. They
are known ''Pink-eyed Pittsleys." They are
shy and retiring. and their physical peculiarities
are likely to be retained for generations.
A CANTON O., man has a fuchsia of which he
is proud. 1t is very large one, and recently
he requested a reporter of the Repository to help
him measure it. It is in his workshop and con-
sists of three main stalks of ten feet more in
length, and from these stalks there ramifca-
tons that form a network over the ceiling of the
workshop. and the ends falling down the
south window and a window to the west. From
the heavy growth and the manner in which the
stems were wound about it was imposs BILE to OBJ
tain an accurate measurement of the plant, but
work was conducted so as to have the figures
fall under instead of exceed the exact length
The result was that the stalks and branches on
this plant measured over liz feet.
JAMES LICK would be surprised if he were al
lowed to ascertain how slowly his gifts have
been made available to the people. He died in
1876, and in 1880 the litigation with his son
ended. The San Francisco Evening Post says:
"The observatory has reached the greater part
of it's completion but it is still far from finished
The OLD Ladies' Home and other eleemosynary
institutions, after years of waiting, finally re-
celved their requests me puonc paths are as
far from completion the dav Lick died; the
monument TO Scott Key is still on paper: the en-
blematical group of statuary representing Cali
fornia. to cost 800. 900. exists only in the i'm
agin alton of the designer. and the School of
Mechanical Arts may be utilized In the middle
| of the next century. However, the trustees
have had some benefit out of it if the public
have not had. They have drawn salaries
amounting to $780, 000 they have paid out
| prodgous fees 1916 900 to John b. FELTON, and
$35 900 to Hail McAllisterl for legal services;
they have given each other splendid contracts;
they have occupied their pleasant Offices at home
| and taken their ease abroad"
Romantic Suicide of Dentist.
| Paris Dispatch to London Daily Telegraph.
A Partisan dentist, about fifty years DID, has